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Ken Donaldson, Emeritus Professor of respiratory toxicology, University of Edinburgh recently discovered a long-forgotten specimen in the collections of the Surgeons’ Halls Museums in Edinburgh and has pieced together its remarkable history.

The image is of a specimen showing how the inhalation of coal dust affected the miner’s lungs.

(credit: Reproduced with kind permission from Surgeons’ Hall Museums)